Presidents
32nd President. He created the New Deal and is the only president to served more than two terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
It outlawed discrimination and segregation, effectively ending Jim Crow.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The preference to accept native-born white Americans over non-native white Europeans and non-white immigrants or citizens.
What is Nativism?
December 7, 1941.
What is the Bombing of Pearl Harbor?
His assassination in 1914 marked the beginning of World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
31st President. He had a successful career before he took the office, but is blamed for the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Raised import duties to protect American businesses and workers. It worsened The Great Depression.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930?
Ideology that calls for a return to tradition, a strict following of the Bible, and is deeply religious.
What is Fundamentalism?
October 29, 1929.
What is Black Tuesday?
June 1942, it marked the end of Japanese Imperial expansion and was a major win for the United States.
What is the Battle of Midway?
25th President, assassinated in 1901. He led many imperialistic efforts in the 1890s.
Who is William McKinley?
The two acts passed in response to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Signed by Teddy Roosevelt.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act?
What is Modernism?
September 1, 1939.
What is the Invasion of Poland by Germany?
It ended World War I, forcing Germany to pay reparations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
33rd president. He ultimately made the decision to use atomic bombs and led the USA through the end of the Second World War.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Protected and recognized workers’ rights to form a union and organize.
What is the Wagner Act of 1935?
Left-wing ideology that believes in public ownership, violent revolution, and seizing the means of production.
What is communism?
August 6th, 1945.
What is the bombing of Hiroshima?
Prime Minister of Britain during World War II and one of the "Big Three."
Who is Winston Churchill?
28th President. He was the first Democrat to win the presidency since Grover Cleveland in 1897, winning the election of 1912.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Immigration act that issued visas. It prohibited immigration from Asian countries.
What is the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924?
Right-wing ideology that values nationalism, ethnicism, and militarism and is anit-democracy.
What is Fascism?
November 11, 1918.
What is Armistice Day?
A meeting held in February, 1945 by the Big Three to discuss post-war plans regarding Germany and the USSR.
What is the Yalta Conference?